Festive Fractals - Computerphile

Fractals aren't just fascinating computer generated patterns, they could also be the key to future computer architecture. Professor Phil Moriarty explains.

Thanks to Noah Hardwicke for the Christmas Card

This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

[freeelectron]

That sort of enthusiasm would be really infectious amoung his students! More Moriarty please!

[lagduck]

Wow, so much energie from him! Pretty sure he's on math.

[ButzPunk]

21 Minutes of Moriarty? Christmas has come early!

[vovakarma]

It crazy how prof Moriarty explains things, because when you hear him speak and see him so captivated by this topic, you immediately become much more interested and listen with much more care! Thank you!

[SkateGeneva]

Prof. Moriarty's videos are the absolute best. Thanks for this early Christmas present Computerphile ! Cheers

[MaGFarqui]

I just love how prof Moriarty explains things, and especially in this video when he conects ideas that I'm familiar to me but otherwise I would not have connected that way. I'm an architect and I love studying the larger scale - the cities - and I'd never thought of a city growing in a fractal way just like he put it. I'm thinking of slums, which there are plenty of where I'm from. Slums are more of a trial and error type of making cities, much more flexible and way richer in terms of human scale and human interactions compared to 'the formal city'. But yet designers (and politicians) keep on making bad decisions regarding new urbanisms. To me, a city is like a giant house. Residential areas are bedrooms, public space is the livingroom, etc.
Yes, completely off topic and bad English, but that's where my wiring took me.
Thanks professor and Sean!

[HarmelodicOld]

I love Prof. Moriarty's style. So much energy and passion is in his explanations and he just makes things interesting and accessible in an enthralling way.
Brilliant video!

[Style]

Dude, i don´t know how you guys feel, but i can tell you, i simply love this guy! The way he get´s excited as soon he´s talking about math and computing stuff in general, is just amazing ! If i would have had a Prof. like him back in the days... ouh boy :D

So, greetings from Germany, keep up those great videos. Love it !

[johnwhitmore]

Dear Professor Phil Moriarty, Man if you're ever in Dublin I'll buy you a pint. I couldn't hope to have a sensible conversation about this stuff but you certainly deserve a mineral water.

[antivanti]

"I'm not gonna bother measuring the Koch" -Moriarty 2017

[DjNarda]

Can we please see the Christmas card code?

[briandaniels]

I've always wondered what fractals really were, thanks for such an awesome explanation!

[DasIllu]

When you don't know in which category to put a video, like Computerphile, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols, then you know it's gonna be interesting.
And to say a physicist is no mathematician is like saying a neurologist is no real doctor ^^

[Darticus]

Why does everyone hate Professor Moriarty? People are vaguely referencing his political beliefs, fallacies, etc. etc. but aren't giving any straight reasons. Regardless of his political beliefs, it has absolutely nothing to do with the video. He does a good job doing what he was expected to do for this video. Giving a dislike would be misleading if it had nothing to do with the video.

[donaldey]

Merry Christmas, hope you have an interesting and enjoyable 2018

[crystalsoulslayer]

This man has such a chaotic vibe. So fun.

[jmalmsten]

So... If I understood the bit at the end right it's something like this:

1. Make fractal like pattern of molecular wires
2. A governing system feeds it 1+1=?
3. If the pattern answers anything other than two, it throws it away and restarts at point 1. Otherwise continue.
4. Hey! It knows 1+1=2! Let's see what else it does!
5. Feed it "Hamlet is a ?"
6. If it responds with something intelligeble. Then continue with more complex tasks. Otherwise, keep reiterating the blob of wires.

Is this correct?

[jelloryan]

Yeah I love this guy. He's friggin brilliant.

[Kargoneth]

Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate), professor Moriarty, Sean, and viewers, and a happy new year!

[jeanious]

An acid trip helps see fractals, they are EVERYWHERE!